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[Pro Bot]

If it's related to the movie, it should be canon to the movie, why it could be canon to the TV series?

Watchmen Artist Says Watchmen Game Is "Completely Canon"

Watchmen: The End is Nigh is a video game tie-in for the movie version of the Watchman graphic novel. No, don't leave yet! Keep reading.

kotaku.com

 

[selfishmisery]

Totally fixed the Pennyworth section in the "Gotham continuity" timeline.

 

[Dok95]

Can someone make a Watchmen TV Series reading/viewing order please?

With all the related things canon for the TV Series?

Thanks!

 

[Pro Bot]

Can someone make a Watchmen TV Series reading/viewing order please?

With all the related things canon for the TV Series?

Thanks!

1939
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 (1962 frame story)

1939-1940
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2 (1962 frame story)

1940-1942
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3 (1962 frame story)

1946
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4 (1962 frame story)

1947
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1

1947-1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5 (1962 frame story)

1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6 (1962 frame story)

1959
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1 (1985 frame story)
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2 (1985 frame story)

1959-1960
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3 (1985 frame story)

1963
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3

1966
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4

1960-1966
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4 (1985 frame story)

1962-1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1

1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6

1972
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1

1977
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2

1966-1978
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5 (1985 frame story)

1984
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1

1981-1985
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6 (1985 frame story)

1985
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12

1992
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #3 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #4 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #5 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #6 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #7 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #8 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #9 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #10 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #11 (2010s DC Universe)
Doomsday Clock #12 (2010s DC Universe)

2019
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly

Something like that, I think? Going through it adding timeline markers, but I'm pretty sure this is correct.
Note: there is an extra in-universe pirate comic in Watchmen and Before Watchmen, but it's events are non-canonical within the Watchmen world so I don't think it should impact the viewing order. Technically Before Watchmen's pirate comic was published post-Watchmen's pirate story in-universe.

 

[Dok95]

1962
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2

????
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Watchmen: Who Watches the Watchmen?
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Watchmen: Taking Out The Trash
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5

1973-1977
Watchmen: The End is Nigh

????
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6

1985
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12

1992
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12

2019
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07:
Watchmen 1x08:
Watchmen 1x09:

Something like that, I think? Going through it adding timeline markers, but I'm pretty sure this is correct.
Note: there is an extra in-universe pirate comic in Watchmen and Before Watchmen, but it's events are non-canonical within the Watchmen world so I don't think it should impact the viewing order. Technically Before Watchmen's pirate comic was released post-Watchmen.

Thank you very much! I will catch up all of these before the TV series, thanks!

 

[selfishmisery]

Dick Grayson's whole thing about

Spoiler

him killing Jericho

"five years ago" can't work if in very, very late December 2014 Hawk and Dove weren't even on the Titans team yet. (At least by December 29, 2014.) And the episode "Aqualad" occurs over the course of MORE than a couple days.

I guess Dick Grayson rounds up 4 years and 3 months(?) to "five years"?

EDIT: Funny how DCU's synopsis for "Aqualad" said it was "four years ago". Almost like they're aware of the timeline mistake.

 

[Pro Bot]

Dick Grayson's whole thing about

Spoiler

him killing Jericho

"five years ago" can't work if in very, very late December 2014 Hawk and Dove weren't even on the Titans team yet. (At least by December 29, 2014.) And the episode "Aqualad" occurs over the course of MORE than a couple days.

I guess Dick Grayson rounds up 4 years and 3 months(?) to "five years"?

EDIT: Funny how DCU's synopsis for "Aqualad" said it was "four years ago". Almost like they're aware of the timeline mistake.

Yeah, that was a little bit distracting, but at least they acknowledge it, probably.

 

[selfishmisery]

Spoiler

Jason Todd: Destined to die, but saved by hope.

 

[Pro Bot]

Thank you very much! I will catch up all of these before the TV series, thanks!

Just a note, I've changed some of it as I'm going through it. Might want to wait a little bit for me to finish.

When you get to Watchmen: The End is Nigh, probably go with:

If not the game itself. A whole walkthrough of the game is 4 hours, at least this gets you the story without the boring beat-em-up scenes.

If you can manage that, though:

 

[Pro Bot]

Watchmen Viewing Order (corrected now):
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly

 

[selfishmisery]

This is an issue.

Do I just move the "Hank and Dawn" flashbacks where Don and Dawn's Mom get hit and everything after that to 2013? Ignoring the December 14, 2014 date on the newspaper?

EDIT: Okay for one thing, the newspaper in "Hank and Dawn" said THURSDAY December 14, 2014. That year would have to be a typo I guess...

 

[Pro Bot]

View attachment 133

This is an issue.

Do I just move the "Hank and Dawn" flashbacks where Don and Dawn's Mom get hit and everything after that to 2013? Ignoring the December 18, 2014 date on the newspaper?

I'd probably move Hank & Dawn back a year and keep the December 18th date ignoring the 2014 part. Pahaps it's an extremely rare newspaper typo?

 

[selfishmisery]

Now hold on, I just edited my post to where I saw it said "Thursday". There's a Thursday December 4th in 2014, despite the newspaper saying the 14th (not 18th, again my memory sucks). I could work that the newspaper publisher accidentally added a "1" to the day.

 

[selfishmisery]

I can't tell if that said 18 or 14 still, it's too blurry...screw it, it's December 4th 2014 now.

Crummy Washington newspaper. That leaves a little wiggle room in December 2014 in the timeline for "Jericho".

 

[selfishmisery]

Gotham's "Year 1" is so short because the events of Season 1 are so tightly knitted together and Bruce's "two years ago" line when he meets Matches Malone completely makes "Year 1" so insignificant length-wise.

There can only be a sizeable time jump after 2x04. 2x05 and 2x14 are, again, tightly knitted and close together. I guess Barnes and the GCPD have hunted Penguin's gang for a whole year...

 

[Dok95]

Watchmen Viewing Order (corrected now):
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly

Are the dates the same that selfishmisey's dates? Or can you add the dates please?

 

[Pro Bot]

Are the dates the same that selfishmisey's dates? Or can you add the dates please?

Erm, Selfishmisery's dates? No Selfishmisery timeline yet, pal.

The dates are on the previous comment, fixed up. This is just simpler. I changed it with updated dates, but this is the complete series without the dates.

This is the previous comment:

1939
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1 (1962 frame story)

1939-1940
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #2 (1962 frame story)

1940-1942
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #3 (1962 frame story)

1946
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #4 (1962 frame story)

1947
Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1

1947-1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #5 (1962 frame story)

1955
Before Watchmen: Minutemen #6 (1962 frame story)

1959
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #1 (1985 frame story)
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #2 (1985 frame story)

1959-1960
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #3 (1985 frame story)

1963
Before Watchmen: Comedian #1

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #2
Before Watchmen: Comedian #3

1966
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #1
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #2
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #3
Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre #4

1960-1966
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #4 (1985 frame story)

1962-1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #1

1966
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #2
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #3
Before Watchmen: Nite Owl #4

????
Before Watchmen: Comedian #4
Before Watchmen: Comedian #5
Before Watchmen: Comedian #6

1972
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 1

1977
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #1
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #2
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #3
Before Watchmen: Rorschach #4
Watchmen: The End is Nigh: Part 2

1966-1978
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #5 (1985 frame story)

1984
Before Watchmen: Moloch #1

1981-1985
Before Watchmen: Oxymandias #6 (1985 frame story)

1985
Watchmen #1
Watchmen #2
Watchmen #3
Watchmen #4
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #1
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #2
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3
Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #4
Watchmen #5
Before Watchmen: Moloch #2
Watchmen #6
Watchmen #7
Watchmen #8
Watchmen #9
Watchmen #10
Watchmen #11
Watchmen #12

1992
DC Universe: Rebirth #1
The Flash: Rebirth #1
Batman #21
The Flash #21
Batman #22
The Flash #22
Doomsday Clock #1
Doomsday Clock #2
Doomsday Clock #3
Doomsday Clock #4
Doomsday Clock #5
Doomsday Clock #6
Doomsday Clock #7
Doomsday Clock #8
Doomsday Clock #9
Doomsday Clock #10
Doomsday Clock #11
Doomsday Clock #12

2019
Watchmen 1x01: It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice
Watchmen 1x02: Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship
Watchmen 1x03: She Was Killed by Space Junk
Watchmen 1x04: If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own
Watchmen 1x05: Little Fear of Lightning
Watchmen 1x06: This Extraordinary Being
Watchmen 1x07: An Almost Religious Awe
Watchmen 1x08: A God Walks into a Bar
Watchmen 1x09: See How They Fly

By the way, Batman #21, The Flash #21, Batman #22 and The Flash #22 is collected as Batman/The Flash: The Button.

 

[Dok95]

Erm, Selfishmisery's dates? No Selfishmisery timeline yet, pal.

The dates are on the previous comment, fixed up. This is just simpler. I changed it with updated dates, but this is the complete series without the dates.

This is the previous comment:


By the way, Batman #21, The Flash #21, Batman #22 and The Flash #22 is collected as Batman/The Flash: The Button.

Sorry, I hadn't see it, thanks!

 

[Dok95]

And what is that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen:_Motion_Comic
Is it canon?

 

[Pro Bot]

And what is that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmen:_Motion_Comic
Is it canon?

I mean... it's the same as the comic but as a motion comic, so yeah. If you prefer that over the standard comic, you can use that instead.